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The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Believing your own hype is acceptable, to a point. Realistically, you kinda have to when you’re the CEO of a company that makes a product many experts are reasonably skeptical of.

The key is to maintain a bit of objectivity and know the limitations of AI. What may seem like success would only turn out to be a PR disaster for Perplexity when it failed. Other AI CEOs know this. That’s why they’re not lining up outside the Time’s office to promote their services.

Ultimately, this only makes Srinivas look like an overexcited kid who doesn’t truly understand his own product.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the real dick move is offering up their services as digital scabs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that doesn’t help, either. Bad move both ways.